Western Green Toad
Bufo (Anaxyrus) debilis insidior
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- A. d. insidior – Cochise Co, AZ – photo by Will Wells
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- Dona Ana Co, NM – photo by Chris Newsom
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- A. d. insidior – Dona Ana Co, NM – photo by Chris Newsom
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- Map by Steve Bledsoe, SWCHR
DISTRIBUTION: In our region, Bufo (Anaxyrus) d. insidior occurs in west Texas, eastern and southern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.
LEGAL STATUS: No Listings
MEANING OF SCIENTIFIC NAME: Bufo (Anaxyrus) debilis insidior (Girard – 1854)
Genus: Bufo, Latin = toad – toads have been known as bufo since ancient times
Genus 2: Anaxyrus – Greek = a chief, a leader
Species: debilis, Latin = weak, frail, crippled – ref. unknown
Subspecies: insidior; Latin – insidians = to be seated, fixed
Ref. Ellen Beltz 2006
Ref. E. Jaeger 1962